The effect of food insecurity and stress on delay discounting across families: a COVID-19 natural experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delay Discounting is the extent to which one prioritizes smaller immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards. The ability to prospect into the future is associated with better health decision-making, which suggests that delay discounting is an important intervention target for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Delay discounting decreases throughout development and stressful experiences, particularly those that accompany poverty, may influence this developmental trajectory. The current study leveraged the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn as a natural experiment to understand how changes in food insecurity and psychological stress may associated with changes in delay discounting among parents, adolescents, and children.

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SUBMITTER: Crandall AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9388997 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature